Tory leader asked to apologise for suggesting UK military ‘just hanging around’

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/badenoch-apology-uk-iran-5HjdW22_2/

Posted by tylerthe-theatre

26 Comments

  1. Can we conscript politicans like Kemi and Farage for a bit so they can truly get it before running their mouth off

  2. The_Cruncher88 on

    Interesting how attacking the military seems to have become a sport for right wing politicians.

  3. Why are the right wing in this country so fucking keen to see union flag drapped coffins coming into BrizeNorton?

  4. Tories and Reform can fuck right off with their desperation to bend over for the big orange nonce. The US started this shit show, there’s absolutely no reason for us to willingly let them drag us down with them.

  5. Ticklishchap on

    Krazy Kemi is a potential British version of Kristi Noem. She genuinely seems to enjoy hurting people and the thought of people being hurt. I think she is seriously f*cked up and evil with it.

  6. MoleWhackSupreme on

    Why don’t we ship Kemi off to the front lines of yet another Middle Eastern war.

    She likes to talk a big game so let’s give her a chance to prove her mettle

  7. Impressive-Bird-6085 on

    Kamikaze Kemi is a national embarrassment… When you think she couldn’t possibly stoop any lower, she proceeds to prove to the contrary!

  8. Ravelord_Nito117 on

    Kemi Badnoch is one of the most embarrassing politicians in recent UK history and the bar is literally in hell

  9. These-Sport-421 on

    It’s sickening to see all the pro-Israel Tories and ReformUK members clamouring for Britain to enter a war for Israel.

  10. Icy_Researcher1031 on

    I never understand why we ask/demand for an apology in cases like this, it’s obvious if they do they don’t actually mean the apology.

  11. TheCharalampos on

    I do hope the 40% of the population that wants to vote for reform and the tories finally realise that there is zero respect in them for anything in our country.

    Just pure disdain.

  12. Ivan_Dobsky_MD on

    It’s become the norm for the right in the UK to criticise everything about our country, as a way to suck up to the American right. Then they’ll harp on about patriotism.

  13. Strict-Mongoose-9833 on

    Is there an actual segment of British voters who get excited by the idea of their leaders being subservient to Trump?

  14. Saw a comment somewhere else that said
    *”Only 50 people in the UK want to go to war with Iran. Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and 48 British newspaper columnists.”*

    She and the people advising her are in a Twitter bubble. And they don’t realise the people she is pandering to are predominantly bots.

  15. FirefighterNice4229 on

    They are not hanging about the navy are just stuck at port as nothing works

  16. EspanolAlumna on

    If the military are just ‘hanging around’ because they are not currently involved in a war then isn’t Kemi Badenoch just ‘hanging around’ as she isn’t actually in government.

  17. THEWELSHMAN1980 on

    I spent 8.5 years in the military and 7 of them was just hanging around, so she’s onto something.

  18. PM_Me_Your_Lies_Girl on

    God she is so shit.

    No effective opposition in this country. Which I’m glad about on this occasion, as we definitely shouldn’t be jumping feet first into another war.

  19. ash_ninetyone on

    So we should. Let our troops “hang around”

    This isn’t our fight. This wasn’t planned. There’s no mission scope. The US doesn’t even know what success looks like to them.

    If it’s regime change, you can’t do that with just air power alone, unless the Iranian people overthrow the government. You would need boots on the ground. Even then, to ensure the country doesn’t just collapse, you either need to commit yourself to nation building, ensuring a civilian government is stable and strong enough, or you’d need to effectively colonise the place.

    Given how much Trump minimised NATO and our role especially, following the US into illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how little they supported our intervention in the Falklands, the US and Israel can deal with this mess they created.

    Our role should be no further than defending our overseas bases and the territories they are in (i.e. Cyprus)

    Badenoch and Farage seem to think it’s more important to rush in, in the hope of placating a man-child and rapist, than actually thinking about what intervention would even bloody mean